From TheHill.com:

Internet domain handoff takes major step forward

by Mario Trujillo

A major step was taken Thursday in the U.S. government’s plan to hand off oversight of the Internet domain name system. 

A nonprofit international group approved a plan and forwarded it to the Obama administration Thursday for review and approval.

The group, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), has historically been contracted out to manage the behind-the-scenes workings of the Internet that pair up numerical IP addresses with their familiar Web addresses. 

The ICANN, if you didn’t know, is based in Playa Vista, a community in the city of Los Angeles.

In the past, the GOP expressed fear that the U.S. government’s handoff could allow other nations — specifically those that have a poor track record on Internet freedom — to gain more leverage over the Internet. 

On the other hand Demorats and Leftists, who have no real interest in truly free speech — just look at the average college campus — don’t see a problem with this at all.

The Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration has had oversight of the Internet’s domain name system, and it has historically contracted that role out to ICANN.

Now because of Obama?  No more.

Another example of Mr Obama’s ensuring that America isn’t exceptional, and that America gets placed squarely in her place: lower.

BZ